Causes of Tank Crashes

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  1. sen5241b

    sen5241b Astrea Snail

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    I'm trying to compile a list of top reasons for tank crashes (or any major tank disaster). Help from advanced or beginners is welcome. Give me both noob type mistakes and incidents by advanced aquarists. Please contribute! Later I'll condense and order these based on prevalence for everyone.
     
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  2. rewris

    rewris Skunk Shrimp

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    Something dies and causes an ammonia spike?
     
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  3. bwalker9801

    bwalker9801 Zoanthid

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    ato malfunction and or kalk reactor causing rapid dilution and or ph spike
     
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  4. amcarrig

    amcarrig Super Moderator

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    Overheating, old tank syndrome or deep sand bed "malfunctions".
     
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  5. mscottring

    mscottring Fire Shrimp

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    Monkey climbs up the side and poops in it. What? It could happen.
     
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  6. steve wright

    steve wright Super Moderator

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    tank set up and live stock added to quickly
    temperature gets to high for to long- oxygen depleted
    nem goes walkabout
    life form dies, releasing toxins
    equipment fails and goes unnoticed (holidays when someone only experienced enough to feed fish is looking after tank)
    excessive additives -
    calcium falling out of solution
    water quality deteriorates


    theres a few for you

    Steve
     
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  7. madlarkin

    madlarkin Peppermint Shrimp

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    For most common I'm going to vote with plain old fashioned lack of knowledge/research/common sense...The majority of tank crashes at least in the beginning are caused by folks either not doing proper homework or just charging in headlong and ignoring it.

    Barring that temp, ammonia/nitrate spikes, ATO/Kalk malfunctions and equipment failure(heaters blowing up, pumps melting down, lights falling in).
     
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  8. sen5241b

    sen5241b Astrea Snail

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    What is "old tank syndrome"?
     
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  9. Karen

    Karen Flamingo Tongue

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    My heaters malfunctioned and stuck on. Had a fish boil.. Sad... Only one of my fish lived and of course it's the one I liked least. I got it for free and someone was going to flush it..SO I took it so he didn't get flushed. That was the worst thing that happend to me.
     
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  10. amcarrig

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